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The Cincinnati Bengals suffered a loss to their running back depth, and potentially their kick returner, for the 2024 season. Chris Evans, a 2021 sixth-round pick out of Michigan, will reportedly miss the entire regular season (per Bleacher Report) with a torn patella tendon suffered in Thursday’s joint practice with the Chicago Bears. Brown was taken off on a cart …

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterAug 13, 2024, 10:31 AM ET CloseKristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Canadian junior hockey player Rylan Masterson filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and 10 universities on Monday night, alleging the NCAA is violating antitrust laws by preventing any player who has appeared in a major-junior hockey game from also …

OXNARD, Calif. — As the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams wrapped their joint practice Wednesday, players and coaches lingered on the field. Players reconnected with teammates, present and former alike. They tipped their hat to opponents, greeted their families, and worked with equipment staffs to return jerseys and pads to their appropriate buckets. But before the crowd had cleared …

Two-time Pro Bowl safety Justin Simmons agreed on an $8 million, one-year contract with the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday. Simmons is the second major addition the Falcons have made to bolster their defense in two days. The team acquired four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Matthew Judon from New England for a third-round pick. The 30-year-old Simmons spent his first eight …

Brian Burns has had an impressive start to his NFL career, yet there’s untapped potential he wants to explore. Getting a fresh start to his career with the New York Giants, Burns feels his best years are ahead of him.  “I really don’t feel like I tapped into my ceiling. I feel like I’m just scratching the surface,” Burns told …

The 2024 NFL preseason has reached the midway point (hard to believe), as Week 2 of the exhibition slate is considered as the dress rehearsal for some teams while others used their joint practices this week to figure out the state of their roster. Some aspects of the 53-man roster are starting to take shape as position battles are still up …

Juice believes CMC will return in ‘no time’ from calf injury originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Programming Note: Watch “49ers Training Camp Live” with Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan at 3 p.m. PT today from Santa Clara, streaming live on the NBC Sports app. Watch the show later on YouTube and Facebook. SANTA CLARA — It was …

Aug 13, 2024, 07:31 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins traded forward Jordan Frasca to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, acquiring forward Cody Glass, a 2025 third-round draft pick and a 2026 sixth-round draft pick. Glass, 25, posted 13 points (six goals, seven assists) in 41 games with the Predators last season. The No. 6 overall pick in the 2017 draft …

NEW YORK — Nate Burleson has caught some passes from good quarterbacks over the course of his career. THE NFL TODAY studio analyst and “CBS Mornings” co-host played 11 seasons in the NFL, having receptions from Daunte Culpepper, Matt Hasselbeck, and Matthew Stafford — all of which earned Pro Bowl berths in their careers. Burleson, who was a 1,000-yard receiver …

Henry McKenna AFC East Reporter Jalen Hurts dealt with several setbacks in 2023.  There was a lingering knee bruise and then the finger injury in the regular-season finale. There was his statistical regression. And there was the Philadelphia Eagles’ 1-6 finish to the season. That certainly wasn’t what Hurts or the Eagles expected after the team signed him to a …

What Warner likes about rookie Puni’s training-camp performance originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Programming Note: Watch “49ers Training Camp Live” with Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan at 3 p.m. PT today from Santa Clara, streaming live on the NBC Sports app. Watch the show later on YouTube and Facebook. Rookie 49ers guard Dominick Puni’s strong training-camp performance isn’t going unnoticed by …

Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!  I have no idea how it happened, but the 2024 NFL season is just 21 days away. That’s right, it will be kicking off exactly three weeks from today. To celebrate that fact, we’ll be making a final record prediction for every team in today’s newsletter. Actually, that’s not completely …

The Eagles won just their second preseason game under head coach Nick Sirianni in 10 tries, a 16-13 win over the Ravens, who ironically have been one of the best preseason teams in NFL history under head coach John Harbaugh. Sirianni hasn’t emphasized preseason results and with the Eagles and Patriots having joint practices before Patriots vs. Eagles on Thursday …

Aug 15, 2024, 01:16 PM ET CHICAGO — Wrigley Field will host two college hockey doubleheaders in January after the NHL’s Winter Classic is played there, the Big Ten and Chicago Cubs announced Thursday. “The Frozen Confines: Big Ten Hockey Series” will feature three men’s games and one women’s game. The Chicago Blackhawks will play the St. Louis Blues at …

Sometimes, the best picks of your fantasy football drafts are the ones you never make, and those are the ones we’re here to discuss today. There are a number of reasons you might fade a player, whether you don’t believe they’ll have a pathway to opportunity, projected inconsistencies or perhaps, you just don’t feel a player will return enough value …